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  Institut für Lebensmittel- und Ressourcenökonomik

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  Universität Bonn

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Overview:

This PhD project is part of Core Project 6 on "Technology Adaption and impact" of the "Cluster of Excellence" PhenoRob: Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production" financed by the German Research Foundation.

The core project 6 studies the adoption potential and related impacts of robotics and phenotyping (PhenoRob) technologies on agricultural development, welfare, and the environment at farm and landscape scales. It involves collaboration between agricultural economics and informatics and engages with projects across the whole cluster in order to understand the conditions under which PhenoRob technologies may contribute to sustainable agricultural transformation. As a key long-term output, we develop an agent-based model (ABM) of technology diffusion. The ABM serves as a virtual laboratory that allows us to explore the relevance of alternative economic theories and related empirical phenomena for the diffusion of PhenoRob-type technologies in crop production. The sub-project assesses impacts of novel PhenoRob technologies in German crop production at farm-scale based on bio-economic modeling to inform the ABM.

Contribution

Our group contributes to core project 6 by:

• Systematically collecting data on existing and emerging PhenoRob technologies in German crop production

• Extending the bio-economic farm-scale model FarmDyn based on the collected data on PhenoRob technologies

• Assessing the impact of PhenoRob technologies by simulations across farm samples with "FarmDyn" with regard to various sustainability indicators

Related publications

Kuhn, T., Enders, A., Gaiser, T., Schäfer, D., Srivastava, A., Britz, W. (2019): Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany, Agricultural Systems, Link.

Kuhn, T., Schäfer, D., Holm-Müller, K., Britz, W. (2019): On-farm compliance costs with the EU-Nitrates Directive: A modelling approach for specialized livestock production in northwest Germany, Agricultural Systems 173: 233-243, Link.

Britz W., Lengers, B,.Kuhn, T. and Schäfer, D. (2014): A highly detailed template model for dynamic optimization of farms - FARMDYN, University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, Version September 2016, 147 pages.

Staff working at ILR on the project

Christoph Pahmeyer, PhD student, project realization

Wolfgang Britz, project lead

This work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2070 - 390732324".

Last updated: Saturday, December 21, 2019

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Recent publications

• Integrated assessment of legume production challenged by European policy interaction: A case-study approach from French and German dairy farms (2021) Heinrichs, J., Pahmeyer C., Britz, W. (2021): Integrated assessment of legume production challenged by European policy interaction: A case-study approach from French and German dairy farms, QOpen 1(1):1-19
• Metrics on the sustainability of region-specific bioplastics production, considering global land use change effects (2021) Escobar, N., Britz, W. (2021): Metrics on the sustainability of region-specific bioplastics production, considering global land use change effects, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 167(April 2021),2015345
• ‘Fruchtfolge’: A crop rotation decision support system for optimizing cropping choices with big data and spatially explicit modeling (2021) Pahmeyer, C., Kuhn, T., Britz, W. (2021): ‘Fruchtfolge’: A crop rotation decision support system for optimizing cropping choices with big data and spatially explicit modeling, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 181,105948
• Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany (2021) Heinrichs, J., Britz, W., Pahmeyer, C., Kuhn, T. (2021: Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany, Agricultural Systems 187,1029922020
• Long-Term Scenarios for Sub-Saharan Africa's Agro-Food Markets with varying Population, Income and Crop Productivity Trends (2021) Kuhn, A., Britz, W. (2021: Long-Term Scenarios for Sub-Saharan Africa's Agro-Food Markets with varying Population, Income and Crop Productivity Trends, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 46(1): 20-36
• Step-by-step development of a model simulating returns on farm from investments: the example of hazelnut plantation in Italy (2020) Spiegel, A., Severini, S., Britz, W., Coletta, A. (2020): Step-by-step development of a model simulating returns on farm from investments: the example of hazelnut plantation in Italy, Bio-Based and Applied Economics 9(1): 53-83
• Economic opportunities of using crossbreeding and sexing in Holstein dairy herds (2020) Pahmeyer, C. Britz, W. (2020): Economic opportunities of using crossbreeding and sexing in Holstein dairy herds, Journal of Dairy Science, 103(9):8218-8330
• Long-term impacts of bio-based innovation in the chemical sector: a dynamic global perspective (2020) Nong, D., Escobar, N., Britz, W., Börner, J. (2020): Long-term impacts of bio-based innovation in the chemical sector: a dynamic global perspective, Journal of Cleaner Production, 272: 122738
• Modelling Consumption and Constructing Long-Term Baselines in Final Demand (2020) Ho, M., Britz, W., Delzeit, R., Leblanc, F., Roson, R., Schuenemann, F., Weitzel, M. (2020): Modelling Consumption and Constructing Long-Term Baselines in Final Demand, Journal of Global Economic Analysis 5(1): 63-80
• Linking Global CGE Models with Sectoral Models to Generate Baseline Scenarios: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities (2020) Delzeit, R., Beach, R., Britz, W., Chateau, J., Freund, F., Lefevre, J., Schuenemann, F., Sulser, T., van Ruijven, B., Weitzel, M., Willenbockel, D., Wojtowicz, K. (2020): Linking Global CGE Models with Sectoral Models to Generate Baseline Scenarios: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities, Journal of Global Economic Analysis 5(1): 162-195
• Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally? (2020) Jafari, Y., Britz, W., Dudu, H., Roson, R., Sartori, M. (2020): Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally?, German Journal of Agricultural Economics 69(2): 143-168
• Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment (2020) Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2020): Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment, Empirica 47(1): 17-52
• Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany (2020) Kuhn, T., Enders, A., Gaiser, T., Schaefer, D., Srivastava, A., Britz, W. (2020): Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany, Agricultural Systems 127: 104656
• Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model (2020) Seidel, C., Britz, W. (2020): Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model, Bio-based and Applied Economic 8(1): 75-99
• Stochastic-dynamic modelling of farm-level investments under uncertainty (2020) Spiegel, A., Britz, W., Finger, R., Djanibekov, U. (2020): Stochastic-dynamic modelling of farm-level investments under uncertainty, Environmental Modeling and Software, 127: 104656
• An economic and environmental assessment of a glyphosate ban for the example of maize production (2020) Boecker, T., Moehring, N., Finger, R., Britz, W. (2020): An economic and environmental assessment of a glyphosate ban for the example of maize production, European Review of Agricultural Economics 47(2): 371-402